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Improving the Sustainability of Your Restaurant During Challenging Times

Future Food

Improving the sustainability of your restaurant during challenging times – a lesson for everyday trading. The question for every restaurateur and food operator in Australia is: What am I doing every day to make my business more sustainable and immune (or partially immune) to market forces? Image via Good Food).

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Restaurants Pivot to the new ‘Post-COVID’ Consumer Behavior Patterns

Modern Restaurant Management

It’s not enough just to recover, retail and specifically restaurants and the food industry are compelled to pivot, adapt and create a model that will endure. They were gaining in popularity prior to the pandemic, with the Census Bureau estimating 5,970 food trucks in 2018, “nearly double the 3,281 in 2013.”

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How I Got My Job: Founding a Hip and Sustainable Canned Wine Company

EATER

The company currently offers five sustainably farmed, low-intervention wines that Olszewski has chosen to be widely pleasing. I got a full-ride scholarship to UMass Amherst, where I majored in sustainable agriculture and gender studies and minored in English literature. How do we put the sommelier on the retail shelf?

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-January 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Coupled with the fact that December of 2018 was strong in terms of same-store sales thus presenting a challenging comparison, December of 2019 was projected to be weak regardless of holiday shifts.” percent in 2018). percentage points compared with the growth recorded for 2018. percent since Q3 of 2017.

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MRM Research Roundup: Year-End 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

“Together, restaurants, industry leaders and diners rallied to adapt, pivot and rebuild, setting the stage for a more sustainable, self-reliant future. The question for retailers in the food industry, though, is whether those trends are permanent or passing due to the pandemic. In its new report, Placer.ai

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COVID-19 Is the Opportunity Plant-Based Alternatives Have Waited For

Modern Restaurant Management

Also, significant: supplies of meat at the retail level are dwindling. The new wave of interest is based in consumers who are ready to add plant-based proteins to their diets because they are safe, sustainable and accessible. The nonprofit Food & Environment Reporting Network estimates that U.S. agriculture supply chain are felt.

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7 Women F&B Leaders That are Driving Positive Change Across The World

The Restaurant Times

Kate Cole joined as the president of Focus Brands’ subsidiary, Cinnabon, an American chain of retail bakeries specializing in cinnamon buns in 2010. In 2018, Garima Arora became the first Indian woman to receive a Michelin star for her Bangkok restaurant. Kat Cole, Former COO & President, Focus Brands.